SMACtalk for Teachers: Privacy Protection

As students spend more time learning and socializing online, we all need to work together to ensure our students stay healthy and safe. The social media awareness campaign, SMACtalk, was formed in response to this need. SMACtalk for Teachers is a series featuring an audio podcast published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of SMACtalk for Teachers is to raise awareness, provide resources, and increase communication for parents, teachers, and students.

This course is the fourth in a SMACtalk for Teachers series. The host, Cassandra Barnett, has been a school librarian for 42 years and is currently the Program Advisor for School Libraries for the Arkansas Department of Education. As advocates for digital citizenship, school librarians teach students how to behave ethically and responsibly when online.

SMACtalk for Teachers: Establishing an Online Presence

As students spend more time learning and socializing online, we all need to work together to ensure our students stay healthy and safe. The social media awareness campaign, SMACtalk, was formed in response to this need. SMACtalk for Teachers is a series featuring an audio podcast published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of SMACtalk For Teachers is to raise awareness, provide resources, and increase communication for parents, teachers, and students.

SMACtalk for Teachers: Online Dangers

As students spend more time learning and socializing online, we all need to work together to ensure our students stay healthy and safe. The social media awareness campaign, SMACtalk, was formed in response to this need. SMACtalk for Teachers is a series featuring an audio podcast published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of SMACtalk for Teachers is to raise awareness, provide resources, and increase communication for parents, teachers, and students.

This course is the sixth in a SMACtalk for Teachers series. The host, Cassandra Barnett, has been a school librarian for 42 years and is currently the Program Advisor for School Libraries for the Arkansas Department of Education. As advocates for digital citizenship, school librarians teach students how to behave ethically and responsibly when online.

SMACtalk for Teachers: Unplugging

As students spend more time learning and socializing online, we all need to work together to ensure our students stay healthy and safe. The social media awareness campaign, SMACtalk, was formed in response to this need. SMACtalk for Teachers is a series featuring an audio podcast published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of SMACtalk for Teachers is to raise awareness, provide resources, and increase communication for parents, teachers, and students.

This course is the seventh in the SMACtalk for Teachers series. The host, Cassandra Barnett, has been a school librarian for 42 years and is currently the Program Advisor for School Libraries for the Arkansas Department of Education. As advocates for digital citizenship, school librarians teach students how to behave ethically and responsibly when online.

SMACtalk for Teachers: Digital Learning Unit

As students spend more time learning and socializing online, we all need to work together to ensure our students stay healthy and safe. The social media awareness campaign, SMACtalk, was formed in response to this need. SMACtalk for Teachers is a series featuring an audio podcast published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of SMACtalk for Teachers is to raise awareness, provide resources, and increase communication for parents, teachers, and students.

This course is the eighth in a SMACtalk for Teachers series. The host, Cassandra Barnett, has been a school librarian for 42 years and is currently the Program Advisor for School Libraries for the Arkansas Department of Education. Digital citizenship is part of what school librarians teach, making them very interested in helping our students be responsible and ethical when online.

Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Copyright Law

This course assists educators in the integration of technology in all areas of the curriculum by addressing Copyrights and Fair Use of web-based and other educational material. It is the hope of the developers that educators will seek to be compliant with U.S. Copyright Laws. This course should be used for information purposes only and is not a substitute for actual legal advice.

Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Butterflies and Moths

This ASU Delta STEM Education Center course is an-depth study of butterflies native to Arkansas including a technological emphasis on websites that teachers and students will find helpful throughout their investigations. Although teachers should be able to use technology in the classroom, the main goal is to empower students with these skills so they can enter the workforce with appropriate 21st Century Skills.

Investigating Careers

This course illustrates a variety of ways that students can use technology to investigate careers. Although teachers should be able to use technology in the classroom, the main goal is to empower students with these skills so they can enter the workforce with appropriate 21st Century Skills.

Closing the Empathy Gap

Closing the Empathy Gap brings to the forefront the vision of Susanna Post, 2021 Arkansas Teacher of the Year. Through her experience of teaching in alternative learning classrooms, she realized something important was missing. She began to understand that her students' life experiences were very different from her own, and she was unable to empathize to some degree. She began to suspect this was happening in every classroom across the country. Mrs. Post understood that these gaps were unintentional and built a platform on the desire to close those empathy gaps. 

Arkansas has the highest rate of traumatic adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the country, so it made sense to start here in Arkansas. Through this course, you will follow her journey, learn about the brain science behind her claims, listen as other Arkansas Teachers of the Year and one Missouri Teacher of the Year discuss how empathy impacts their own classrooms, and watch one student's journey as he learns that empathy also comes with high expectations. 

This course meets the requirements of ACA 6-17-708.